Combination tie-plate and rail-brace.



PATENTED DEC. 4, 1906.

APPLICATION FILED BEPT. 4. 1906.

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' GOMBINATION TIE PLATE AND RAIL BRACE.

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PATENTEH DEC. 4, 1906.

W. D. CLARK.

COMBINATION TIE PLATE AND RAIL BRAGE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 4. 1906.

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COMBINATION TIE-PLATE. AND RAIL BRACE- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Doc. 4, 1906.

Application filed September 4, 1906. Qerial No. 333,065.

To all when) it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM D. CLARK, a cltizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combination Tie- ;Plate and Rail-Brace, of which the following 1s a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combination tie-plate and rail-brace of the class designed for use in railway construction, and particularly for use in connection with track-curves.

The primary object of the present invention is the presentation of a rail-brace for sustaining the rail in a fixed vertical osition and to prevent spreading of therai s upon curved port-ions of a railway-track which shall by'reason pf the ai'rangeinent of its parts attain this fobject in a more effective manner than heretofore presented.

The invention also has especial reference to economy of construction of the tie-plate.

The novel construction and arrangement of parts are fully described herein and in the appended claims and illustrated by the drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents a vertical side View, and Fig. 2 a plan view, of theinvention. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1, partly in section,

showing the invention operatively placed in connection with a rail and railway-tie, thetie being a broken-away figure. -.Fig. 4 is a vertical side view of the invention, being a reverse side to that shown by Fig. 1, the rail being in section. Fig. 5 is a vertical end view showing the brace and tic-plate in operative position, the tie being in section. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a metal plate, being a diagrammatic view to illustrate an economical method of cutting the same for use in connection with the invention. I

Referring now to the figures in the drawings, the numeral 1 represents a railwaytrack rail consisting of flanges 2, the tread 3, and web 4, used in connection with the railway-tie 5 and secured to the tie by means of spikes 6, and for economical. purposes I emp oy a metal plate 7, Fig. 6, having a suitable width for a tie-plate and a length sufficient for two tie-plates and make limited incisions lengthwise, as on the lines ab and c d, along the center of the plate at the ends thereof, and

angularly and transverse y bisect the plate, as

on lines e f g h, in a manner to form two plates of equal surface, each of said plates having the extended part i or By this method of incising plate 7 two plates 9 and 10 are formed of similar outline, as is obvious, and since these plates after being out are used without further changes in form it is apparent that a saving of material is effected by this method of cutting.

After the plates 9 and 10 are formed in the manner just described the angular apertures 11 and 12 and recess 13 are cut transversely. Incisions are then made divergently from points 14 to bases 15 transversely through the ointed lugs 16, 17, and 18, Figs. 1,3,4,5, the atter being turned downward at approximately a right angle to the plate, these point ed lugs thereafter operatin as holding means in connection with the rai way-tie when operatively placed to prevent lengthwise movement of said plate. That part of the end of each plate between the recess 13, Fig. 6, and aperture 11 is then folded over the body of the tie-plate 19, Figs. 1,2, 3, 1, 5, toform the housing-plate 20, the extension'i or 7', Fig. 6, being also folded over said body of late 19 plates, thereby forming the in a manner to form the housing-p ate 21. y

Housing-plates 20 and 21 thus formed have the transverse and vertical wall 21, adapted to make close contact with the edge of flanges 2 ofrail 1, and they effectually sustain these flanges and prevent any side movement thereof. In this connection it may also be explained that the transverse walls which form recess 13 and aperture 11, Fig. 2,,are in alinement after housing-plate 20 has been formed, the walls of apert iire 11, by reason of the construction, afford ng a housing for the head 22, Fig. 3, which is effective for preventing its displacement.

I construct a rail-brace 2-1, having the base 25 adapted to have a mounting on the end of plate 19 adjacent to recess 13 and dis- )osed lengthwise of the tie-plate and secured y means of bolts 26, passed through said base 25 and apertures 27, Fig. 6, of the tie plate. The base is continued as arm 28, passin inclinedly upward to ajnnction with the web 4 and trend 3, where/itis formedas'a brace-head 29, which incloses a part of one side of the web and tread. In practice I have found an angle of forty-five degrees to be effective for the inclination of the brace.

It will be understood from the description that brace 24 is placed pn the outer side of the rail of the curved trackway, and, as has been explained, after the parts have been operatively secnred the arms or lugs 16; 17 and 18 effectually prevent lengthwise movement ofthe tie-plate upon the railway-tie, and

plates 20 and 21,- together with brace 24, ooperate to preserve the track-rail in a verticalvposition and-to prevent undue vibration.

hat I claim, as-my invention is --1" 1. In combination with a railway-tie, and

a rail having a Web and base-flanges acornbined tie-plate and rail-brace comprising a rectangular metal plate having a part of its ends upturnedlina manner to form trans- ;versel y-disposed sustaining-walls adapted to make contactwith the edges of said baseflanges; said :metal plate being apertured in a manner to form spike-openings therethrough in alinement with said transversely- 'disposed sustaining-walls and to form a i li slpike honsing recess, and incised :thereough between'the planes of said trans- :versely-disposedsustaining-walls in a manher to 'form' dow vnWardly-extending ointed' lugs integral with said plate; an inc inedlydisposed rail-brace having one of its ends secured upon the tie-plate, its opposite 'end making contact with a part of said rail and web. i

2. In combination with a railway-tie, and a rail having a web and base-flanges; a combined tie-plate and rail-brace comprising a rectangular metal plate hav ng a part of its ends'upturned in a manner to form transversel-y-dispsed sustaining-walls adapted to -make contact with the edges of said basefiangesysaid metal plate being aperture-d. in amanner' to form spikeopenings therethrongh in alinement with said transverselydisposed sustaining-walls, and incised therethrough between the planes of said transversely-disposed sustaining-walls in a man ner to form downwardly-extending. ointed lugs integral with said plate; an inc inedlydisposed rail-brace having one of its ends securedupon the tie-plate, the. opposite end of said rail-brace embracing apart of said rail and web. 7 I

3., In combination With a railway-tie and a rail having a web and base-flanges a combined tie plate and rail brace comprising plate 19 formed from metal plate 7 incised on lines a b, c d, and lines efg and h," said plate 19 having a part of its ends 11 turned in a.

"manner to form transversely-t isposed sustaining-walls adapted to make contact with the edges of said base-flanges; said plate 19 being apertured in a manner to form spike- WILLIAM D. CLARK.

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' HIRAM A. STU'RGES,

GEO. T. REYNOLDS.

openings therethrough in alinement with 

